[user104658]

Does anyone remember back when you could "spark" sky box office / PPV sports with a 9v battery? . It was back before it was all broadband-based and PPV activated via your phone line. Basically you unplugged the box from the phone line, stripped the wire, attached one of the coloured wires to the " + ", ordered your content and then as it was "pending" you flicked another of the wires on the " - " of the battery and it would register it as activation. Those were the days!

[Beso]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

My father in law has a 'smart TV' that won't receive any of the bbc channels Not by choice, as he loves Eastenders, just the damn thing gets a snowy mess on all BBC content. Its purely accidental and its annoying him but surely this could be done for the general public? Where you actually could not receive BBC without a license?

is it a samsung?..i work with samsung everyday..i could probably talk you through a fix.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

A local pub has just got fined 6000 for illegal broadcasting of sky sports, they have done a lot of pubs.

That'll be Sky though rather than the actual TV license. Sky have special packages for "public" viewing in bars / pubs that cost quite a bit more than home packages. That's why sports channels in pubs have that little "pint glass" in the bottom corner, to show that it's all above board.